1Forensic Unit Department of Pathology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Jalan Yaacob Latif, Bandar Tun Razak, 56000, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2National Institute of Forensic Medicine, Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Jalan Pahang, 50586, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
3Faculty of Dentistry, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Tingkat 15, Menara B, Persiaran MPAJ, Jalan Pandan Utama, Pandan Indah, 55100, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
4Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
*Corresponding Author: Faridah Mohd Nor, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, 56000, Kuala Lumpur. Email: mnfaridah@gmail.com
Online published on 5 October, 2018.
Four basic biological profile were useful for human identification including stature. The aim is to develop regressions for stature using ten metacarpals in Malay males. The samples were retrieved from Hospital Kuala Lumpur from PMCT images, which comprised 200 males from 20 to 53 years old. The parameters were lengths often metacarpals measured by Osirix, in which strong correlations with stature were evident. Single linear regressions were developed with good accuracy, where both true and estimated statures showed close values by paired t-test. It is concluded that regression equations are useful to estimate stature in Malay males.
Stature, metacarpal, Malaysian, anthropology, forensic
